ANTHRO 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Grave Goods, Social Evolution
16 Sep 2017
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Anthro150 - lecture 2 - archeology and complex societies. Archaeology is the study of human behavior in the past. Questions about economy, political organization, social structure, culture, religion, environment. A site is a basic working unit of investigation and it is a heuristic concept. A settlement survey is a walk around the landscape to find where items of interest are located. The durable aspects of culture such as tools, structures, and art. The depth, sequencing, and composition of archaeological remains. To reveal the horizontal extent of an archaeological deposit and the arrangement of. Artifacts are objects which have been modified by people (stone tools, ceramics, metal, etc. ) Ecofacts are natural objects found in association with people (e. g. animal remains, plant remains) Features are large, non-portable modified objects found at human sites (e. g. hearths, buildings, large statues, rock art, etc. ) It is done through acquisition, manufacture, use, and deposition. Provenience is the three-dimensional location of any archeological data within matrix.
